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In my role as Vice President of Storytelling at Cisco, I’m lucky enough to get a front row seat to the company’s most inspiring and impactful stories, and 2021 was a year like no other. From lending a technology hand to the frontline workers of vaccine administration, to leading the charge on hybrid work, and committing to reach Net Zero by 2040, the past year has been a period of tremendous growth and transformation for…

Messaging services vendor Interop Technologies runs three data centers to provide services to customers and to run its own back-office systems. Interop also provides turnkey hardware/software solutions that run at customer sites. Pandemic-related hardware shortages, particularly those of servers and storage, have put a severe crimp in the way it does business. “When you go to procurement, you get so much push-back,” said Joshua Collazo, the company’s director of infrastructure. “This is back ordered, that…

In response to the United Nations’ climate change programs, every major oil & gas (energy) company has announced big investments to reach sustainability goals in the next 20 years. The related goal on the list of every energy company is the energy transition tied to sustainability and climate change. This report will focus on these dual objectives of sustainability and energy transition strategies. Each energy company has a slightly different approach to reaching net-zero carbon…

In order to meet United Nations sustainability goals, every major mining company has indicated their businesses will change in the next 20 years. The world is about to go through one of the biggest energy transitions in history and it’s clear that the mining industry will be greatly impacted. What can we expect? What are the energy transition strategies? Let’s break it down. Each mining company has a slightly different approach to reaching the sought-after…

IT and Security professionals worldwide are working to assess and mitigate their exposure to Apache Log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228). The following guide has been put together for current Secure Network Analytics and Secure Cloud Analytics customers, providing suggested ways to leverage your deployment to assist in your detection and response efforts. To learn more about Cisco’s response, hear from experts, and understand how you can use other Cisco Secure product, please visit Cisco Secure Alert on…

The timedatectl command allows you to both query and change the system clock and its settings on Linux systems. To display the current settings, use the command by itself—with no arguments. You should see something like this: $ timedatectl Local time: Thu 2021-12-16 11:12:31 EST Universal time: Thu 2021-12-16 16:12:31 UTC RTC time: Thu 2021-12-16 16:12:31 <; real time clock Time zone: America/New_York (EST, -0500) System clock synchronized: yes NTP service: active RTC in local…

After nearly two years of adopting major network and security changes wrought by COVID-19 and hybrid work, weary IT network and security teams didn’t need another big issue to take care of, but they have one: Stemming potential damage from the recently disclosed vulnerability in open source Java-logging Apache Log4j software.   Log4j or Log4Shell has been around a long time—it was released in January, 2001—and is widely used in all manner of enterprise and…

After nearly two years of adopting major network and security changes wrought by COVID-19 and hybrid work, weary IT network and security teams didn’t need another big issue to take care of, but they have one: Stemming potential damage from the recently disclosed vulnerability in open source Java-logging Apache Log4j software.   Log4j or Log4Shell has been around a long time—it was released in January, 2001—and is widely used in all manner of enterprise and…

We hear a lot about how Wi-Fi 6E is going to change the way we work and play. With the ability to achieve higher throughput and lower latency due to more frequency availability and less congestion, combined with better security, Wi-Fi 6E has given us a new playbook of applications and use cases. As a Distinguished Engineer in Cisco’s CX CTO organization, I spend a lot of time working within large public venues such as…

Education institutions deliver a vast array of services to students beyond their core mission of teaching and learning, from academic, health and emotional support to counseling have historically been challenged to provide the vast array of student services they need to deliver in a timely, high quality and cost-effective manner. Among the reasons for this are the difficulty in finding the specialists they need to deliver the services, the cost of those specialists, and the…